Colette Peters
Craftsy Instructor

New Jersey

With a master's degree in painting from Pratt Institute in New York, and eight years' experience as a designer for Tiffany & Co., Colette brings a trained artistic eye to her work in cake decorating. She pioneered the now-classic designs of the topsy-turvy cake and gift box cake as contributions to Tiffany Taste and The Tiffany Wedding.
Colette has published five books: Colette's Cakes: The Art of Cake Decorating (1991), ... Read Full Bio »

With a master's degree in painting from Pratt Institute in New York, and eight years' experience as a designer for Tiffany & Co., Colette brings a trained artistic eye to her work in cake decorating. She pioneered the now-classic designs of the topsy-turvy cake and gift box cake as contributions to Tiffany Taste and The Tiffany Wedding.
Colette has published five books: Colette's Cakes: The Art of Cake Decorating (1991), Colette's Christmas (1993), Colette's Wedding Cakes (1995), and Colette's Birthday Cakes (2000), all published by Little, Brown & Company. Her fifth book, Cakes to Dream On (2004), is published by John Wiley & Sons.
Colette has appeared on Food Network Challenge as both a contestant and judge, TLC's Ultimate Cake-Off, The Oprah Winfrey Show and a host of other cable network programs over the years. Her work has also been featured in a number of prestigious print publications, including The New York Times, New York Magazine, Food & Wine, Town & Country and Modern Bride.
In 1990, Colette began teaching cake decorating class around the world. In 2004, she opened her own school in New York City, where she teaches when not traveling. Colette is also a longtime member of ICES (International Cake Exploration Société).

Colette's Craftsy Classes

Discover a new angle on decorating as you make imaginative crooked cakes with the design's legendary originator, Colette Peters. Learn about Colette's creative process before you go step by step through carving, covering and stacking the tiers for a classic crooked cake. Then, bring a modern crooked cake to life as Colette guides you through creating and securely assembling tiers of all different shapes and sizes. Plus, Colette will teach you her techniques for embossing and decorating your cake with gum paste vines, leaves, loopy flowers, rolled roses and more. Create gravity-defying designs decorated with vibrant embellishments and bring an air of amazement to any celebration.

Learn decorating skills from the matriarch of modern American cake decorating in this innovative class: Piece of Cake! with Colette Peters. Add layers of color to your cake with inlaid flowers, squiggles and stripes, then learn to adorn Colette's unique sliced-cake design with bows, poufs, flowers, berries and pearls. Embellish a slice of cake using two distinct styles - classic decorations for the exterior of the cake and the innovative interior cake designs Colette has developed over her 22-year teaching career. Make eye-catching, mouth-watering, cakes that display classic and innovative fondant styles.